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Great site! But as I clicked on music radio stations across the US, they were almost all broadcasting commercials at the time. Which is one of the fundamental problems with the format.
There is also an app called "radiodroid" (or maybe it is "radiodroid2"; on the https://f-droid.org app store that says it builds all the apps from free/open source) which I have very much enjoyed for this. Unlike the other 1-2 internet radio apps I tried, this one made it easy to browse thousands of stations, search by tag (I guess everything is in there), language, country, etc etc, set bookmarks, list listening his…
If you also want to find different stations around the world there is also http://www.surfmusic.de/ which I often use for power 105.1FM in nyc, which is difficult to find a stream of here in the UK.
When would you guys listen to radio ? And why not Spotify, podcast, YouTube etc ?
College radio is excellent for this. My favorite DJ has been on 4 hours a week for a decade, and most of the music is new to me. Half is OK in the background, there can be a handful of awful grindy noise bleh, but another bunch of it is often great, and there are amazing gems that have taken my listening off into new frontiers — from Bevis Frond to Gravitar to Mono to Expo 70.
The most common question the kids ask is: How can you listen to that? The answer is: I’m happy to listen to unfamiliar and even unpleasant music if that’s the price to discover something completely unexpected and amazing.
Great site! But as I clicked on music radio stations across the US, they were almost all broadcasting commercials at the time. Which is one of the fundamental problems with the format.
You may end up listening to an hour of funk, followed by an hour of experimental noise, then old '78s and bluegrass. It makes for a fun listen.
https://wfmu.org/ - for a feel of programming, you can pick some of the DJs from here: http://www.wfmu.org/table
It's interesting how few streaming stations there are in eastern Asia.
[1] https://hymns.fm
When would you guys listen to radio ? And why not Spotify, podcast, YouTube etc ?
Not that radio is always well-curated either!
Like if I wanted to build my own tiny radio streaming client, where would I look for the streams?
I tried snooping the network tab in dev tools on Radio Garden, but couldn't see many requests that weren't either grabbing map tiles, or connecting to Radio Garden itself.